No one can ensure total safety... We must fight pandemic of FEAR - PROF ROBERT DINGWALL
Unfortunately it was not. Sars is only infectious when its, very obvious, symptoms appear. Covid-19 is infectious before symptoms emerge. When compared with Sars, it does not usually require hospital treatment or result in death. About three per cent of Sars patients died, while Covid-19 is fatal in less than one per cent of cases. The scale of infection without symptoms or with only mild symptoms – the World Health Organisation estimates that this is at least 80 per cent of cases – meant Covid-19 was well-established and circulating before anyone could get a grip on it. As we have disc...